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A 59-year-old man was successfully treated at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center in California after radiation for tonsil cancer left him with a damaged jawbone and deteriorating teeth. The man underwent 25 hyperbaric oxygen therapy sessions to reduce his risk for infection before having the teeth extracted and replaced, and will continue to receive therapy after his dental work is complete.

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Doctors at Oregon's Bay Area Hospital used hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat a serious bone infection in a man who is paralyzed and was wounded when a screw head poked through his wheelchair’s padding and into his hip. Surgery, negative pressure therapy and intravenous antibiotics failed to heal the wound for months. The hospital began offering hyperbaric oxygen therapy May 1, and the 52-year-old was one of the first patients to receive it.

A man being treated for a diabetic foot ulcer at Mercy Wound Care Center in Sioux City, Iowa, had a vascular blockage in his lower thigh and five blockages in his heart. A wound care nurse practitioner treating the 67-year-old determined he had vascular problems after noticing weaker pulses in the patient's left foot and diminished hair growth on his left leg. A vascular surgeon restored the blood supply to the man's leg, and he received multiple debridements, antibiotics, skin grafts and hyperbaric oxygen therapy to heal the wound before undergoing quintuple bypass surgery.

Patients in and near McConnellsburg, Pa., soon will no longer have to cross a mountain for specialized wound care. Fulton County Medical Center's new wound care center offers specialized treatment including hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The center's staff includes two podiatrists, a general surgeon and a cardiologist.

A 76-year-old man in East Naples, Fla., is still receiving treatment, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, for a case of necrotizing fasciitis that he developed last October. "He is probably two or three or four months away from completely healing. He no longer has an infection. His wound is shrinking in size," said Dr. Philip Organ, director of the Wound Care Center at Physicians Regional Medical Center.

A 58-year-old man with 10% heart function needed open-heart surgery but first had to receive specialized wound care to ensure that he was healthy enough to survive surgery. Therapy included 60 sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy at TMC Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine in Sherman, Texas. "This is probably one of the best parts of my job ... we get the satisfaction of seeing the patient's gratitude and their just joy of having their wounds healed," Dr. Tram Hill said.